Counter balance moistener



July 28, 1931.

w. A. UTTZ, sR 1,816,553

COUNTERBALANCE MOISTENBR Original Filed March 4, 1927 ATTORNEY PatentedJuly 28, 1931 I UNITED sTA WILLIAM A. UTTZ, sn,

or. CLEVELAND, oHIo.

"COUNTER BALANCE MOISTENER This invention relates to moisteners forgummed tape dispensing machines and has special reference to a moistenerfor the machine shown in my application for patent on gummedtape/dispensing machine, filed March 4, 1927, Serial Number 172,712,Patent 1,731,185, this being a division of said application.

The principal object of the present invention is to provide an improvedand simple construction of moistening device for use in machines of theforegoing description.

A second important object of the invention is to provide an improvedform of carrier for an endless hygroscopic band for use in suchmachines.

With the above and other objects in view, as will be hereinafterapparent, the invention consists in general of certain novel details ofconstruction and combinations of parts hereinafter fully described,illustrated 1 in the accompanying drawings and specifically claimed. I

In the accompanying drawings like'characters of reference indicate likeparts in the several views, and V Figure 1 is a section through theforward end of such a gummed tape dispensing machine as is shown in theapplication aforesaid, the view disclosing the moistening device.

Figure 2 is a perspective view of the moistening web and its supportremoved from the tank.

Figure 3 is a detail side elevation of the tank, web and holder showinghow the holder is tiltably supported in the tank.

Figure 4 is a detail front view of the web support. V s Figure 5 is adetail side view of the web support.

Fi ure 6 is a 'detail showing the moisture In the form ofmoisteningdevice here shown there is provided the usual water tank 10but in the upper side edges of this tank there are found the oppositelydisposed notches 11. r

The web support consists of a single piece of metal having a body 12which is of this application filed September general rectangular formalthough the corners may be rounded as shown in Figure 4.

Projecting in alinement from the side edges of this body-are journals orgudgeons 13 preferably tapered at their junctions with the body as shownat 14: to strengthenthese journals; The journalsf l3 rest in use in'thenotches 11 and are located somewhat above the center of the body so thatthelatter would, unless otherwise prevented, hang per- ES lT r-0 F Ependicularly from the lower side'edgesfof V the body project therearwardly' extending arms 15 each of which is' provided with a notch16. Also the bodyj-is provided at its top and bottom edges withelongated notches 17'so as to provide positioning lugs 18 for the web. V

The holder. thus'described is preferably made from sheet metal bycutting to form and bending the arms 15 rearwardly but I may also useother meansto form the device.

At 20 is a weight in the form of a cross bar which has notches 21 in itsunder edge cooperating with the notches 16 so that the cross bar, whilereadily removable for the purpose of applying the endless web, is

' held properly in place to urge the holder or support to positionagainst the tape delivery tube 22 as shown in Figure 6.

Extending around the support is an endless band or web 23 which is madefrom some suitable material of hygroscopic nature so that water willrise from the tank to wet the upper part of the band by capillaryaction. This web or band is applied by moving the weight and slippingthe band over one arm and into the body, the band yielding enough to thesmall lugs 18. The band obviously may be slipped around the support fromtime to time so asto clean surface to the gummed tape.

permit its passage over There has thus been provided a simple andefiicient device of the kind. described and for the purpose specified.

It is obvious that minor changes may be made in the form andconstruction of the invention without departing from the spirit thereof.It is not, therefore,

desired to confine the invention to the exact form here present a freshand shown but it is wished to include all such as properly come withinthe scope claimed. Having thus described the invention, what is claimedas new is v 1. In a moistener for gummed tape machines, a flat bodyhaving its upper and lower. edges notched to provide pairs of spaced webpositioning lugs, weight arms extending rearwardly .from the body and Im provided with notches 'in'their upper edges I adjacent their freeends, a weight spanning said arms and having notches in-its undersurface cooperating with the first notches, and trunnions extendinglaterally from said i body above said Weight arms.

V 2. In a moistener for gummed tape machines, a single sheet of metalstamped and bent to provide a rectangular body portion, ears projectingvertically from the corners .30 of the body portion in the planethereof,

trunnions projecting laterally from the'side edges of the body portion,and in the plane ofthe body, and weight arms projecting from the sideedges of the body portion and g5 bent to extend at right angles to thebody portion and in the same direction with respect thereto, said armshaving notches in their upper edges adjacent their free extremities toprovide weight positioning 0 means.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature. WILLIAM A. UTTZ, SR.

